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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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Dunn starts in Alaska with the goal of seeing Rufous Hummingbird at the northern extreme of its migration (which he does with some effort and a few bear sightings) and ends in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, “the end of the world,” with the sighting of a Green-backed Firecrown feeding at a firetree in cold drizzly rain.

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A Red-naped Sapsucker and a Townsend’s Warbler

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It prompted a lot of questions, many of which I had previously answered by simple supposition and presumption, but which now became highlighted as inadequate in the light of this experience. I changed to a position further up the slope which allowed me to get a better angle on the top of the branch and bear out my supposition.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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Some of his finds are the first documented records of the bird in that area or the first decent photograph of a little-known species. And sun bears. There is little factual material here about global conservation and protection, but that is not the book’s purpose. And mosquitos. And leeches. And pit vipers. And leeches.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Though the coast of British Columbia, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest, was rich in both, it was appallingly deficient in scientific data. Northern Fulmar, image courtesy of Peter Hodum.

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